That plugin is maintained by the Codehaus Mojo project. Please file a ticket as described here: http://mojo.codehaus.org/cobertura-maven-plugin/issue-tracking.html
Attaching a patch to the ticket will increase the likelihood of getting this fixed quickly. (It doesn't have to be a patch file, you could just state the suggested text change in the ticket itself.) Thanks for improving the docs! /Anders On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 9:31 PM, Andrew Pennebaker <apenneba...@42six.com>wrote: > The online documentation< > http://mojo.codehaus.org/cobertura-maven-plugin/cobertura-mojo.html>for > cobertura-maven-plugin 2.6 says that "coverage.xml" is created if you > specify xml format. In reality, this only happens if you specify xml format > *and* run `mvn site`. `mvn cobertura:cobertura` never generates this file. > > Could we amend the documentation to make this more clear (or even better, > go ahead and make `mvn cobertura:cobertura` generate this file)? > > -- > Cheers, > > Andrew Pennebaker > apenneba...@42six.com >
